A REUNION WITH
RANDY
Huskies face Terps, former head coach.
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Jim Calhoun speaks at a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 13, officially announcing his retirement. Calhoun is set to be replaced by assistant coach Kevin Ollie, who signed a one year contract.

By Dan Agabiti
Sports Editor
After much speculation and
weeks of rumors, the announcement everyone in Storrs was
waiting for finally came. Men’s
basketball coach Jim Calhoun
has officially retired.
Immediately prior to a press
conference to discuss the future
of men’s basketball, Calhoun
officially declared his retirement via a press release from
UConn Athletics.
“I always said that I would
know when it was time, whenever that might be,” Calhoun
said in the release.
During the actual press conference, Calhoun was calm and
collected, without much visible

emotion. This did not, however,
mean that he wasn’t grateful
and contemplative of his time
at UConn.
As he thought back to all the
games that he had coached, he
mentioned being glad to have
been a part of a loyal fan base.
Calhoun expressed multiple
times how happy he was to see
so many fans brave the brutal,
long Connecticut nights under
awful conditions to cheer on the
Huskies.
“Every time I walk in Gampel
Pavilion and the students stand
and clap as I walk in, I get
chills,” he said.
Calhoun started his time as
head coach of UConn back in
1986. Prior to that, Calhoun
had coached for 14 seasons at

Northeastern University. When
he came to the university,
UConn was but a blip on the
radar in the world of college
basketball.
Fast forward 26 years and
UConn is the dominant basketball power in New England, and
one of the premier basketball
programs in the country. Since
the Huskies first won a national championship in 1999, the
Huskies have won two more.
No other school has that many
within that span. Duke and the
University of North Carolina
both have two a piece. The
Huskies’ rival, Syracuse, only
has one.
In his career, Calhoun boasted
a record of 873-380. His record
makes him sixth on all-time in

are now regular citizens of
Mansfield and if they act appropriately, no guest limit will be
enforced,” Cournoyer said. “But
over the first few weekends of
the semester there was an influx
of unwanted guests, so management, not the police, decided to
enact the four-guest limit.”
Campus Apartments hired
State Police on private detail to
keep Carriage secure, Cournoyer
said. He said they are paying
them to be there but are not issuing a quota; it is the police’s job
to enforce the policy.
No tenants have received tickets since the establishment of
the policy. Only simple trespassing tickets have been issued
to unwanted guests who were
denied at the entrance and
attempted to get into the complex through the woods, said
Cournoyer.
“Kids are going to go out and
get drunk anyway, there’s no way
to prevent it,” said Carriage resident Chris Dombakoi. “If you go
here, you should be able to go
wherever on the weekends. It’s
the random non-UConn students
that need to be worried about.”
Though the large crowds
that made Carriage popular
with UConn students are being
controlled, John Armstrong,

the director of UConn’s OffCampus Student Services, does
not think it will affect Carriage
House’s desirability when it
comes to living off-campus.
“I don’t think it will affect
students looking to live in
Carriage House,” he said.
“Everyone thinks everyone
who lives in Carriage is looking to party. That’s not the case.
A lot of students have already
come forward and said that it
doesn’t effect them. I still think
Carriage will remain one of the
most highly desired off-campus
locations.”
Armstrong and Cournoyer
are trying to set up a forum
for residents to meet with the
police officers to discuss the
new policy, Armstrong said.
“We’re trying to encourage
Carriage House residents to initiate discussions,” Armstrong
said. “They seem to have the
strongest feelings.”
A date for the forum has not
yet been established, but in the
meantime, Cournoyer encouraged students to speak to him
about any concerns.
“Anyone who wants to talk,
I’m always open to talking to
students,” he said.

Carriage enforces new 4 guests
per resident policy

By Megan Merrigan
Campus Correspondent

Carriage House Apartments,
a popular off-campus housing
complex notorious for attracting
large numbers of college-aged
guests throughout the academic
year, is now enforcing a fourguests-per-resident policy.
After what Mansfield’s Sgt.
Richard Cournoyer described
as “inappropriate behavior,”
Carriage House’s management,
Campus Apartments, requested
for a guest policy to be put into
action, Cournoyer said.
Each resident is allowed up
to four guests at a time, as long
as they show identification and
are signed in by a resident,
Cournoyer said. Four residents
generally occupy a single apartment, so including residents, the
new policy allows for 20 people
to be in one apartment at a time,
and 80 people to be in each fourapartment building.
Several information sessions
between Mansfield’s Resident
State Troopers, management
and residents were held in the
beginning of the semester to help
the residents assimilate to life
as a resident of the town of
Mansfield, Cournoyer said.
“It was explained that they

Megan.Merrigan@UConn.edu

NCAA history, and the only
active coaches with more wins
than Calhoun are Duke’s Mike
Krzyzewski and Syracuse’s Jim
Boeheim.
Calhoun also brought the
Huskies to four Final Fours in
his 26 years of coaching.
All that success isn’t too bad
for an institution that started as
a minuscule regional basketball
program. Once in the shadows
of UMass, Boston College and
even Providence College, the
Huskies skyrocketed to what
many would consider “the seventh blue blood” basketball program.
When asked what Boeheim
thought about Calhoun’s
rebuilding job at UConn, he had
very high praise for the now-

retired head coach. He referred
to Calhoun’s tenure with UConn
as, “The best building job in college basketball history.”
Boeheim also thinks that
Calhoun does not get the praise
he deserves from national media.
“No question in my mind, he’s
underrated,” Boeheim said.
With the UConn Huskies,
Calhoun won 17 Big East
Championships, 10 regular season championships and seven
conference tournament championships.
During the press conference,
president Susan Herbst made
glowing remarks to make about
the retired men’s basketball
coach.
“He’s a legend, and he’s our

» RETIREMENT, page 2

Cookies all day
and night

Insomnia cookies store coming to UConn
By Abdullah Hassan
Campus Correspondent
Within the next couple of
months, UConn will join the
ranks of U.S. colleges and universities like Yale, Syracuse
and Ohio Sate, where students
can order cookies right to their
dorms until 2:45 a.m.
The cookie shop, which will
be located in Storrs Center, will
offer a wide variety of cookie
flavors including chocolate
chunk, sugar, peanut butter
chip, oatmeal raisin and snickerdoodle.
Emme Pappas, a 7th-semester international relations major
at Syracuse University, regularly orders a box of cookies
with her friends during exams.
“I love Insomnia,” she said.
“They deliver late at night,
which is perfect during finals
week. The best part is, they
deliver the cookies to you fast
so they are still warm.”
In addition, Insomnia
Cookies will offer bulk cookie
options known as Residence
Hall specials. RA’s and floor
representatives can purchase

anywhere from 50 to 300 cookies.
In addition to cookies,
UConn students will have the
option of purchasing cookie
cakes, brownies, and cookiewiches, similar to ice cream
sandwiches. Some flavors, like
peanut butter and s’mores, can
be ordered in double-sized portions.
The shop at Syracuse
University introduces new flavors every week. “We also have
Brownies a la Moda,” says
Sarnecky, “which are brownies
with ice cream and a selection
of toppings that students can
melt on.”
With a wide array of selections available and the ease
of late-night delivery service,
Alexander Dykas, a 2nd-semester chemistry major at UConn,
is worried about the implications it will have on students’
health.
“We are always reminded
of being a Healthy Husky, but
with options such as cookies at
3 a.m., how are we supposed
to stay on top of our health?”

(AP) — A New Jersey pharmacist who is also an Army reservist
pulled out a handgun and fired several shots at a would-be robber
as he chased him from his store, authorities said. Police said it did
not appear any shots hit the fleeing holdup man, who had demanded
narcotic painkillers.
“I’m no hero, but I thought, ‘Either him or I,’” John Agyemang,
who opened Jolin’s Pharmacy in the southern New Jersey town of
Winslow about three months ago, told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.
In a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press on
Thursday, a day after the attempted holdup, the pharmacist said he
had spotted a gun on the robber, who was shown in surveillance
video wearing a blue dress, long wig and black sneakers.
The pharmacist told investigators that he believed he saw the butt
of a gun in the would-be robber’s fanny pack.
The prosecutor’s office said that the pharmacist fired several shots
with a handgun he legally owned. Authorities said the man, also
described as having a light beard, fled on a mountain bike.

Texas man linked to
Anonymous hackers arrested

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man linked to the worldwide hacking
group Anonymous has been detained by the FBI over accusations that
he threatened a federal agent, his attorney said Thursday.
Barrett Brown, 31, of Dallas was arrested Wednesday night and
booked into the Dallas County jail, according to jail records. Brown
was then transferred into FBI custody, Dallas County sheriff’s spokeswoman Carmen Castro said.
Brown’s attorney, Jay Leiderman, told The Associated Press that he
expected Brown to be charged with making threats to a federal agent.
Leiderman said the accusations are connected to YouTube videos
Brown posted in recent days.
The most recent video posted to Brown’s account is entitled in part,
“Why I’m Going to Destroy FBI Agent Robert Smith.”

» INTERNATIONAL

UN meeting rebukes Iran’s
nuclear defiance

VIENNA (AP) — The 35-nation board of the U.N. nuclear
agency overwhelmingly rebuked Iran on Thursday for refusing to
heed demands that it take actions to diminish fears that it might be
seeking atomic arms, a move hailed by the United States as demonstrating international pressure on Tehran to compromise.
Only one country — Cuba — voted against a resolution brought
before the International Atomic Energy Agency board and drawn up
by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.
Ecuador, Tunisia and Egypt abstained, while the 31 other nations
supported the resolution.
Iran denies any interest in nuclear arms. But it has refused to
comply with U.N. and IAEA demands to stop activities that could
be used to make such weapons and to allow a probe of suspicions it
worked on an arms program.

New envoy to Syria says
crisis is worsening

BEIRUT (AP) — The diplomat tasked with ending Syria’s civil
war said that the conflict is worsening on Thursday, the same day
he travelled to the country for the first time since taking up a job he
himself has called “nearly impossible”.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, was expected to
meet Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday. He also was to meet
members of the Syrian opposition.
“We came to Syria to consult with our Syrian brothers,” Brahimi
said on arrival at the airport in Damascus. “There is a crisis in Syria
and I believe it is getting worse.”
Brahimi replaces Kofi Annan, who left the job in frustration
in August after his efforts failed to stem a conflict that started in
March 2011. Activists estimate some 23,000 people have been
killed in the bloodshed.
The visit comes as violence convulses the country’s largest city,
Aleppo, and the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. Activists said
regime forces shelled Aleppo and clashes with rebels were reported
outside Damascus.
The two cities were once seen as largely immune to the violence
in other parts of Syria, but have been hit by fighting as rebels try to
bring the fight to symbols of Assad’s power.
Although the regime is better armed than the rebels, the government has not been able to crush the rebellion. The rebels also have
failed to overthrow the regime, leading to a bloody stalemate that
many fear will drag on indefinitely.
The violence has left the Assad government isolated internationally, although Iran, China and Russia support it. Brahimi met
Mohammad Riza Shibani, the Iranian ambassador to Syria, on
Thursday — a meeting the ambassador described as “good and
fruitful.”
He also met Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, who
stressed that any initiative should “focus on the Syrian people’s
interest,” said the state-run news agency, SANA.

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Ollie to replace Calhoun
as head coach

from RETIREMENT, page 1

legend,” Herbst said of Calhoun.
Calhoun said that the hip
injury was not the reason that
he chose to retire at this time.
He said that he is actually
healing quite well, despite the
crutches that he’s still uses a
month later.
He did, however, say that the
injury gave him ample time to
think about his future and the
future of UConn men’s basketball. As he was thinking,
he came to the realization that
now is the best time for him to
retire.
The man set to replace
Calhoun is assistant coach
Kevin Ollie. Ollie played for
the Huskies under Calhoun
from 1991-1995, spending his
final two years as team captain.
From there, the 39-year old
went to the NBA, where he
spent 13 seasons in the NBA
until he retired after the 20092010 season as a member of the
Oklahoma City Thunder.
Ollie started his time as
an assistant coach with the
Huskies in the 2010-2011 season and continued through the
2011-2012 season.
“I am very honored and
humbled to become the UConn
men’s basketball coach,” Ollie
said in the release.
It was also revealed that Ollie
will be head coach until April 4,
2013 and will be paid $625,000
during that time.
Calhoun had nothing but
praise for Ollie. During Ollie’s
time as a player and an assistant
coach, Ollie had much interaction with Calhoun and Calhoun
said that Ollie is going to be the
right man for the job of men’s
basketball coach at UConn.

“Any foxhole you need to
jump in, there’s your guy,”
Calhoun said of Ollie during the
press conference.
While Calhoun was straightfaced and seemingly all-business, Ollie was very emotional
and broke into tears during his
speech to the media.
Ollie said that to coach basketball at UConn was his dream job
and that he was overwhelmed to
have that kind of an opportunity.
Although Ollie was both
ecstatic and overflowing with
gratitude and emotions, he made
clear to both those in attendance
and the rest of the college basketball world that he is a winner
and that he is going to try his
best to get the Huskies another
National Championship at some
point.
“That was a great time at
the White House and hopefully
we’ll be back soon,” Ollie said.
Calhoun will still be with the
university in an advisory role
and said that his phone is open
to both Ollie and the players 24
hours a day, seven days a week.
That being said, Calhoun did
not want to interfere with Ollie
as a coach.
“I don’t wanna hear about
playing time,” Calhoun joked.
“Go talk to Ollie about that.”
Despite his occasionally
rough and sometimes-angry
appearance, Calhoun will be
dearly missed by players.
There were several players in
attendance to express congratulations to Calhoun, among them
former UConn guard and current member of the Charlotte
Bobcats, Kemba Walker.
Walker said that when
Calhoun first told him of his
retirement that he couldn’t

ESPN founder
speaks to students

By Rebecca Greenberg
Campus Correspondent
“You’re fired!”
No, this isn’t a review of the
most recent episode of “The
Apprentice,” but rather the
two words that caused the creation of one of the most popular television networks in the
world. A man named Howard
Baldwin fired Bill Rasmussen
from his job as communications director for the Hartford
Whalers. Why? 1978 marked
the season the Whalers lost in
the WHA Finals against the
Winnipeg Jets. So unfortunately, every employee in the main
office was let go. Rasmussen
was 46 years old at the time,
raising three children, and had
no income whatsoever. One
could say he wasn’t exactly
living the “American Dream.”
Little did Rasmussen know,
every sports fan in the world
would later thank Howard
Baldwin for firing the man
who would one day be the
most influential man in sports
television.
Rasmussen may have been
unemployed, but he did have a
dream that was about to become
reality. UConn basketball gave
Rasmussen a seemingly perfect jumping-off point. He
pitched his idea of broadcasting a UConn basketball game
to five cable networks. The
majority of the networks told

him that it would take many
months, even years, for him
to broadcast a single sporting
event. However, Rasmussen’s
passion and tenacity led him
to fearlessly call one of the
largest and most well-known
entertainment corporations in
America. He was connected to
a man who worked in the sales
department at RCA. The man
was instantaneously intrigued.
“Where in Connecticut are
you?” he asked. “I’ll be there
tomorrow morning.”
And,
just
like
that,
Rasmussen’s dreams were
being realized. Rasmussen
and his partners were given a
few time slot options, one of
which would air 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. Rasmussen
laughed, thinking of how
improbable and difficult it
would be to air sports for such
an extensive period of time.
Shortly after, Rasmussen’s
partner called up RCA and told
them they’d take the 24/7 slot.
What was RCA’s reaction,
you may ask? “YOU WILL?!”
It took 14 months, but
Rasmussen had started something so unheard of and so
innovative that networks like
ABC, NBC and CBS became
envious. Combined, those
three major networks aired
1,300 hours of sports total per
year. ESPN, however, aired
8,760 hours of sports alone.
Budweiser started advertising

Friday, September 14, 2012

Who's Tweeting about
#Calhoun?
Lance Armstrong @lancearmstrong:
Congrats to 3 time cancer survivor Coach Jim Calhoun on his retirement
today.
Rudy Gay @rudygay22:
Proud to say I play for coach Calhoun. The best husky ever!
Earvin Magic Johnson @MagicJohnson:
Coach Jim Calhoun has done so much for college basketball & student
athletes. His program also produced some of the @NBA greats.
Mike Velasquez @BROlasquez:
Heroes get remembered but legends never die #Calhoun #immortal
Governor Dan Malloy @GovMalloyOffice:
There are many things that make @UConn a top university, including
the basketball team that Coach #Calhoun built into a national powerhouse
Basketball HOF @Hoophall:
Congratulations to coach Jim #Calhoun on an amazing career and
everything he has done for basketball. You will be missed.
UConn_PIKE @UConn_PIKE:
Can we get #Calhoun to celebrate his career at @Huskies_Bartonight?
#nickel

believe it. But Walker thinks dance, Chib Uche, a 1st-semesthat the program is in good ter actuarial sciences major,
hands under Ollie and the rest hasn’t been around UConn for
very long.But he said that coach
of the coaching staff.
Also in attendance at the Calhoun was an immense part
press conference were several of his childhood. Uche said that
students. Though the event was he showed up at the press connot listed as a public event, ference to show his support for
the university did not prevent a coach who meant so much to
students from entering Gampel him, as well as fans of UConn
Pavilion and actually ushered basketball in general.
students to their seats.
One of the students in atten- Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu

JESS CONDON/The Daily Campus

Bill Rasmussen, founder of ESPN, speaks to UConn students on Thursday, Sept. 14.

in January of 1979. March 1,
1979, was the day the NCAA
joined the network. Shortly
after, ESPN started to gain
some real publicity. Later that
year, Sports Illustrated issued
this statement: “ESPN may
become the biggest thing in TV
since Monday Night Football
and nighttime World Series
games.” Interestingly enough,
Monday Night Football presently airs on ESPN.
It is safe to say that ESPN
has come a long way. Last
night, SportsCenter aired its
50,000th episode. It has been
32 years since March Madness,
the NFL Draft and the College
World Series first appeared
on ESPN, and the network
hasn’t stopped growing since.
Yes, Bill Rasmussen was once
called “The Father of Cable

Sports” by USA Today. But he
also understands the struggles
one encounters when fighting
for their dreams. Rasmussen
concluded his speech at the
Student Union Theater on
Thursday afternoon with a
rather philosophical conclusion: “You have to really be
passionate…People are going
to say, ‘What, are you crazy?’
and you say, ‘Watch this.’ You
need to have the passion, and
you go after it and pursue it
and don’t listen to the naysayers. I’d probably make more
money than ESPN makes in
subscriber fees if I had money
for all the no’s I got along the
way. Never give up and just
keep on going.”

Forest Reinhardt speaks to students at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center as part of the Teale lecture series.

By Zachary Kaplove
Campus Correspondent
The 16th year of the Edwin
Way Teale Lecture Series began
on Thursday in the Thomas J.
Dodd Research Center, where
Dr. Forest Reinhardt delivered
a lecture entitled “The Natural
Environment and the Strategy
of Firms.”
Reinhardt is the John D.
Black Professor of Business
Administration at Harvard
Business School. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts in English from
Harvard College, an MBA from
Harvard Business School and a
doctorate in business economics
from Harvard University.
The lecture began with
Reinhardt connecting the environment to the business world.
To demonstrate this interdisciplinary perspective, Reinhardt
described how a current international concern is the prospect
of resource depletion. The possibility that the world may be
forced to exist without current
necessities in the near future,

Reinhardt said, is rapidly morphing from a distant fear to an
imminent threat to an unfortunate reality.
To understand this danger in
its state of actuality, Reinhardt
applied it to fossil fuels and
food. Both of these items are
in high demand and overconsumption could potentially
exhaust the supply of them.
One way to regulate the consumption of these goods is by
monitoring and altering their
economic path through the
free-market cycle.
Consumption is controlled
by taxing these items, making them more expensive, and
effectively, forcing the demand
to decrease.
Reinhardt continued to
examine this issue from a
social perspective, examining
the relationship between business and the government. He
commented on the misconception that private goods are controlled by the firms and that
public goods are controlled by

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Reinhardt, people look less to
the government for goods in
comparison to firms, as the
government is perceived as an
unreliable entity.
Due to different views on
where the economic initiative
lies, the American public does
not know who to turn to in
terms of helping the environment, Reinhardt claimed. The
government has played a big
part of creating awareness or
modifying the country’s habits
for years. But as the presidential election approaches, it is
not apparent whether environmental concerns are really on
the agenda.
The speech concluded with
Reinhardt affirming that environment stands as a priority for
him. He stated that a solution
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But the greater issue is whether
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Stephen Bishop, a 6th-semester student representing the University of Warwick in England, speaks to a fellow student at the Study Abroad
Fair.

UConn holds Study Abroad Fair

By Mary Cooper
Campus Correspondent

hopes that studying abroad will
allow her to “kill two birds with
one stone.”
Pennington
and
Sounanthanam are just two
examples of a large portion of
students with a prior connection to the land they travel to,
whether it be through family
relations and ancestry, or previous knowledge of a language.
“Studying abroad is the best
decision I’ve made in college,”
said Michael Piersall, a 5thsemester political science major.
Piersall discussed his experience in London, where he was
part of a 14-week global citizenship program.
“I took three classes that
met once a week for only three
hours,” he said. “This allowed
me to explore the city and travel
a lot.”
Piersall also participated in
an internship that sought to
raise wages for leading United
Kingdom-based grocery retailer
Tesco, for which he received
three credits. He plans to travel
back to London for graduate
school following his undergraduate studies at UConn.
Professors and the Study
Abroad staff were eager to
assist students in their program
search. “There’s a pretty good
turnout this year,” said Heather
Sinclair, program assistant at
UConn Study Abroad, as she
wove through the crowd, stopping to ensure each table was
prepared for the event.
Summer Spaderna, assistant
director at Study Abroad, also
noticed an increase in attendance. “The turnout is good,’
she said, “better than it has been
for so early on in the semester.
More and more students are
choosing to study abroad. It’s
exciting.”
Despite difficult financial ties, the Study Abroad program continues to thrive. “There
are scholarships available, and
with the exchange programs
especially,” said Spaderna.
“Students still pay their regular
UConn tuition, but the room

The
Rome
Commons
Ballroom filled with hundreds of
lively students eager to explore
the world of cross-cultural academia, as the University of
Connecticut held its biannual
Study Abroad Fair yesterday
afternoon.
The fair, which was held from
4 p.m. to 7 p.m., showcased
over 300 different programs
available to students. The most
popular programs were related
to the School of Business. UC
in Florence and UC in London
appeared to be the event’s most
visited tables, with additional
high interest in South African
and French programs.
With faculty-led programs,
student exchange, direct foreign enrollment programs and
third-party providers to choose
from, there is ample opportunity for students to learn and
travel. Such was the attitude
of many excited students, who
attended the fair in search of
the program best-suited to their
interests.
Students ranged from freshman to seniors, with some just
beginning their search and others with their hearts set on specific programs.
“I just want to experience new
things. I feel like it’s something
I have to do before I graduate,”
said Marissa Sounanthanam, a
5th-semester sociology major.
Sounanthanam, whose interest
in her ancestry has lead her to
search for a program in Asia,
feels that studying abroad will
be an excellent way to satisfy
her interest in travel while fulfilling basic general education
requirements.
Carolyn Pennington, a 5thsemester communications and
psychology major, is, “just
interested in being outside of
the United States.”
“I’m thinking Florence, Italy,”
she said. “I have a lot of family out there.” With 27 cousins
she has yet to meet, Pennington

and board is often much cheaper
than you would expect.”
Yet some program fees can
appear daunting for students
and parents. Estimated costs
for the UC in London program
exceed $16,000 for the semester. Financial aid and scholarship opportunities are available
for those who seek it, but with
limitations.
Many government scholarships are geared towards programs in countries where future
United States relations are key.
Elizabeth Mahan, interim executive director of the Office of
Global Affairs at UConn, says
the U.S. is looking to invest
in educational opportunities in
Asia, Africa and the Middle
East.
“Most students want to study
in Europe and Australia,”
Mahan said, “but there are few
government scholarships for
those programs. The array of
study abroad programs here at
UConn has expanded. We want
to make students aware of other
ideas and opportunities.”
Despite increased costs of
traveling abroad, UConn is
optimistic about the experience.
“Just do it,” said Spaderna.
“When else will you have such
a great opportunity?”
The Spring Study Abroad
Fair will be held in February,
with exact dates to be determined. For more information
on studying abroad, students
may attend Study Abroad 101
information sessions, Mondays
and Wednesdays until the first
application deadline from 1
p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Center
for Undergraduate Education.
The Study Abroad office is
located in CUE 117 and is open
Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. To find application
deadlines and additional information, go to the UConn Study
Abroad website (studyabroad.
uconn.edu).

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7
-- There’s way too much work, especially for
the next two days. A bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush, but is it as fun? Take time to
acknowledge both successes and failures, and
learn from them all.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a
9 -- Do what you can to help the others stay
relaxed and calm. If it’s any help to know,
you’re especially cute tnow, and romance
goes well. Avoid the flimsy. Accept a sweet,
solid deal.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a
9 -- Complete the work first, and play later.
Stick close to home for a couple of days.
Kindly ask for help with a household project.
Make an important connection.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is
an 8 -- Entering a few days of learning.
You’re especially good with words right now.
There’s more money coming your way -- if
you’ll work for it. Communication provides
a key.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a
7 -- The next phase is good for making
deals, even in the face of some resistance.
Competition provides the motivation. But do
it for love, not money. Passion engulfs you.

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by Tom Dilling

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -You’re on top of the world, looking down on
opportunity. Don’t let your head swell, and
watch out for conflicting orders and hidden
agendas. Fix up the place.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6
-- Finish up projects you’ve been avoiding
today and tomorrow. Don’t get sidetracked.
Find assistance from a great coach, as needed, and move up one level.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is
an 8 -- Your friends are grateful for your
contributions and are ready to add their grain
of sand. Exert yourself. Receive accolades
for good service. A touch of glitter might be
just the thing.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today
is an 8 -- Take a few days to firm up career
details. Be clear on what your objectives are.
It’s time to leave misconceptions behind.
Reconfirm what you heard to avoid misunderstandings.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an
8 -- Start planning a vacation, or just go for
it more spontaneously. It doesn’t have to cost
an arm or a leg. Let your heart lead you. Be
grateful for what you have. Enjoy.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7
-- Your theory gets challenged. Don’t resist
it, but learn from the experience. Others may
know better after all. Stay out of your own
way. Changes call for budget revisions.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an
8 -- Consult a good strategist or friend. Use
your experience to soothe ragged nerves. You
solve another impossible problem. Accept a
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A Soviet rocket crashes into
the moon’s surface, becoming
the first man-made object sent
from earth to reach the lunar
surface.

Cleaning up the
electrical grid
By Kelsey Sullivan
Campus Correspondent

RACHEL WEISS/The Daily Campus

Steven Bak was one of many students who perfomed at the first open mic session of the year, held by SUBGOG in the Student Union Ballroom.

By Katie McWilliams
Campus Correspondent
Last night in the Student
Union Ballroom, SUBOG
hosted the first open mic night
of the year.
This event, which is hosted once a month, provides a
stage and an audience for budding student performers and a
fine display of artistic talent
for audience members. The
event was set up informally in
the style of a warm and inviting coffee house, with seating
at small clusters of tables and
a complimentary coffee bar.

Many more students than
anticipated gathered in the
space, ready for the performers and prepared to support
their roommates, classmates,
and friends. Marvin Williams,
a 3rd-semester communications and journalism major
came to “see what the school
has to offer talent-wise.”
The performances were
diverse in style and content.
Some students, like Rebecca
Noelle, performed a mix of
covers and her own originals.
Others stuck strictly to their
own creative works.
Stephen Bak, a 7th-semester
history education major, was
among the performers who

entertained and delighted the
audience with his own works.
“It’s just a good way to get
your name out there and get
comfortable with performing,
and not worry about screwing
up because it’s a relaxed setting,” said Bak.
Bak, who has played guitar
for two years and has been
playing at the open mic series
for the past year, opened the
show with two original songs,
noted that the experience has
always been positive for him.
“I did this last year. It’s fun.
I’m glad to do this.”
Not all of the performances
were strictly one-man musical
acts. The stage was also graced

by slam poets and musical
duos. Songs by the Red Hot
Chili Peppers, Katy Perry and
Sugarland were covered in
a unique style, bringing to
light new talent and giving a
new perspective on the music.
Original works dealt with
themes ranging from love to
religion to finding your identity, and were received with
energy and enthusiasm from
the vocal audience, who burst
into applause after every performance.
The diversity of topics being
presented kept the program
interesting and fast-paced. Of
the slam poets, many issues
were presented in a powerful

and moving manner, with performances bringing to light
issues about politics, sexuality and teenage life.
Each performance differed
from the previous, maintaining a creatively-charged
atmosphere and an aura of
excitement.
Vicky Rosario, a 5th-semester communications major,
was excited by the wide range
of styles presented. “I like it,”
she said. “I like a lot of different music. I like voices that
fill the room.”

Kathleen.McWilliams@UConn.edu

Mary Chapin Carpenter
Events tweeted Opens Jorgensen Season

» Social Media

in real time

By Michael McGuigan
Campus Correspondent
Twitter has become a facet
of everyday life for over
500 million people around
the globe over the past several years. One of the ways
Twitter has become such a
central part of every day life
is through a phenomenon
known as live tweeting.
Twitter Inc. defines live
tweeting as “engaging on
Twitter for a continuous period of time- anywhere from
20 minutes to a few hours,
with a sequence of focused
Tweets. The focus can be
a big live event that everybody’s paying attention to
like a TV show or an award
show, or it can be an event
you create yourself.”
Engaging on Twitter means
tweeting to your followers
in this context. Live tweeting allows an audience to
become more engaged in an
event by providing them with
instant commentary on it.
For instance, an 140-character tweet during an NFL
game can convey much more
meaning to the audience than
a diatribe by a sports commentator. Due to the growing
popularity of Twitter, many
events are now covered by
journalists who are responsible for live Tweeting them.
On Sept. 12, technology writer Andrea Chang of The Los
Angles Times live- Tweeted
the release of the iPhone 5,
which provided her followers instantly with details

about the iPhone 5 instead of
forcing them to wait for her
to write an article about its
release.
Harrison Fregeau, a 1st
-semester history major,
actively follows and engages
in live tweeting. “I follow
live tweeting about various
sports by some ESPN broadcasters,” Harrison said.
By following these tweets,
Harrison is able to stay more
engaged with a game than he
would be when just watching it. In addition to following live tweets, Harrison
also engages in them. On
Sept. 9th he live-tweeted the
Patriots v. Titans’s game critical plays. One of the aspects
that Harrison enjoys about
live tweeting is how it allows
him to stay connected to his
hometown by following live
tweeting of his high school
football team’s games.
For students wishing to
get started in live tweeting,
Twitter offers a live tweeting
guide on its developer page,
and movements.org offers a
13 step live-tweeting guide
as well.
Despite being so young,
Twitter has managed to play
a central role in the way
people communicate online.
The popularity of the micro
blogging site has continued
to grow. This growth can
be attributed to the unique
ways twitter brings people
together.

Michael.McGuigan@UConn.edu

RUSS HARRINGTON

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter will jump start the fall cabaret season at the Jorgensen Theater this
weekend with her country and folk music.

By Focus Staff
The Jorgensen Center for the
Performing Arts’ Fall 2012 calendar will kick things off this
weekend in grand style with a
concert Saturday night by fivetime Grammy Award-winning
country and folk music singer,
Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Carpenter is touring behind
her new album, “Ashes and
Roses,” though there’s no doubt
that she’ll play some of her 12
top-ten country hits, especially
her four singles that reached #1
on the Billboard Country charts.
“Ashes and Roses” grew out of
a difficult phase for Carpenter, a
press release issued by Jorgensen
said. It was a time that included

divorce, the death of her father
and serious illness, which affected her music.
“As we get older and we lose
our father and we almost die
and things go terribly wrong,
we realize how much we need
each other,” Carpenter said in the
press release. “We are all so profoundly connected. It’s the only
thing that matters. Without each
other, what’s the point?”
Carpenter’s 1992 album
“Come On, Come On” has
sold more than four million
albums, while 1994’s “Stones
in the Road” sold more than
two million, according to the
Recording Industry Association
of America’s statistics.
Carpenter will take the stage

on Saturday night after an opening set by folk and bluegrass
singer Aoife O’Donovan, a
Boston-born musician who has
performed with Yo-Yo Ma, the
Boston Pops Orchestra and Lyle
Lovett.
The doors open Saturday night
at 7 p.m., and O’Donovan is
scheduled to start an hour later.
The show is part of the Jorgensen
Cabaret Series, with a nightclub
setting and food and beverages
available to purchase.
Ticket prices range from $30
to $50, although students with a
valid ID can buy up to two tickets for a discounted price of $20.
Non-UConn students and those
under 18 can purchase tickets
for $25.

It’s hard to imagine what
daily life would be like without the use of electrical power.
The production of electricity
in the United States creates a
gigantic carbon footprint, representing 40 percent of our
country’s total energy-related
carbon dioxide emissions.
Furthermore, 90 percent of
the electricity generated in the
U.S. comes from three sources: coal, oil and natural gas.
The problem with these sources is that they all spew incredible amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (thus
increasing climate change),
and also require extraction
from the earth, which often
results in detrimental effects
to the environment and human
health (think of the horrible
coal mine conditions in our
own Appalachia).
Clearly, there is a lot of
room for improvement and the
solution is simple: we need
to reduce our electricity use
and switch over to renewable energy. Some industrious Americans have ensured
their energy security by going
“off the grid,” or generating
their own renewable electricity separate from their local
power companies. If everyone did this, the effects of
climate change would be
greatly reduced and, as an
added bonus, we would all
have complete energy security.
However, this is simply not
practical or affordable for the
average person. Instead, our
society needs to seek out realistic alternatives, and endeavor
to make the right choice (using
renewable energy).
One way to do this is to
participate in local clean energy cooperatives. These businesses are springing up all
over the world. In Germany
for example, Ursula Sladek,
a mother of five who was
outraged by the Chernobyl
accident, chose to create an
alternative to nuclear power.
According to The Huffington
Post, over the course of 11
years “she and neighbors had
raised the millions of euros
needed to buy out the area’s
private power grid and turn
it into a clean-energy co-op.
Now with over 1,000 owners,
the co-op uses and supports
decentralized renewable power
like solar and wind for 120,000
customers, including households and factories.” Many
local energy cooperatives follow this model: the company
offers shares to community
members at an affordable price
and uses the capital to purchase the means of renewable
energy production (like wind
turbines or solar panels). The
shareholders elect a board of
directors to oversee the daily
operations, and often receive
an annual dividend. Overall,
the result is a community that
is much less dependent on fossil fuels, has many local jobs
and has increased community
wealth.
Local energy co-ops are beneficial to communities because
they offer more options and
control for consumers in how
their energy is produced. The
United States has many local
energy cooperatives (there is
one about an hour away from
campus, in Norwich, but many
of them have yet to dedicate
their business to the production of clean energy. Anyone
who uses electricity has the
power to join an energy co-op,
to encourage their co-op to
switch over to renewable energy or to start their own clean
energy co-op for their community.
One way of achieving this
goal is by promoting Extended
Producer Responsibility (EPR)
policies. The idea behind EPR
is to make manufacturers
responsible for the entire life-

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LIFE &
STYLE

from ELECTRICITY, page 5
responsible for the entire lifecycle of their product, meaning that even after the product
is sold the company is responsible for any waste and pollution that the product generates. For example, Germany’s
Packaging Ordinance of 1991
holds producers responsible
for packaging wastes associated with their products. As
a direct result of the ordinance, packaging consumption decreased by about one
million tons in four years. In
a capitalist economic system,
EPR would have tremendous
benefits for the environment,
as companies would suddenly be competing to minimize
their pollution and optimize
their recycling – not out of
their own hippy-dippy environmental awareness, but
because it affects their bottom
line. Taxpayers would benefit as well, as they would
no longer be footing the bill
for waste management costs.
Some state legislatures in the
U.S. have begun to implement
EPR frameworks, but there
have yet to be any comprehensive EPR laws that truly hold
manufacturers responsible.
There is tremendous room for
growth in this area. According
to the Product Policy Institute,
the U.S.’s current consumer
recycling rate of 48 percent is
embarrassingly low compared
to European nations with
mature EPR policies, which
recycle more than 70 percent.
Increasing the U.S. recycling
rate to 75 percent would not
only alleviate public taxes
and help the environment, but
would also create 1.5 million
new jobs.

Kelsey.Sullivan@UConn.edu

Drink Of
The Weekend

Friday, September 14, 2012

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Nintendo’s Wii U to launch Nov. 18

AP

Reggie Fils-Aime, president and COO of Nintendo of America, discusses the upcoming Wii U gaming console. The console
will start at $300 and go on sale in the U.S. in time for the holidays, the company said Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nintendo has a
knack for changing the course of video
games, appealing to the masses from kids to
grandparents even if its technology isn’t the
most advanced.
The creator of “Mario Bros.” and “Donkey
Kong” said Thursday that it will launch its
first high-definition gaming console on Nov.
18 in the U.S., later that month in Europe
and on Dec. 8 in Japan.
It’s the first major game console to launch
in years. But Nintendo is merely catching up
on HD with Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp.,
which began selling their own HD consoles
six and seven years ago, respectively. The
question is whether a touch-screen tablet
controller, coupled with TV-watching features, will be enough to surpass them.
The original Wii console revolutionized
gaming and surpassed its rivals not because
it had more power or better graphics, but
because it gave people a new way to play. Its
motion-sensing controller wasn’t the most
advanced, but it got people off the couch,

swinging virtual tennis rackets, bowling and
flailing around in living rooms around the
world.
But over the years the novelty faded even
as the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 have
managed to keep loyal, hardcore gamers
enthused with massive shooters and multiplayer features.
Whether the Wii U can bring people back
will depend on Nintendo’s ability to lure
people in with classic games from “Mario”
to “Call of Duty,” entertainment features
that go beyond gaming and a price that
doesn’t break the bank.
Nintendo first announced plans for the
Wii U last year, but it hadn’t disclosed the
price or availability date until Thursday.
The Wii U will start at $300 for a basic
model, which is just $50 more than what
the Wii initially sold for. For $350, gamers can buy a deluxe version that is black
instead of white. The deluxe model will
also have a charging stand for its controller, 32 gigabytes of memory instead of 8

and “Nintendo Land,” a smorgasbord of 12
popular Nintendo games.
Nintendo Co. has been trying to drum up
excitement for the Wii U. What sets it apart
from other consoles is the tablet-like Wii U
GamePad. This controller allows for asymmetrical gameplay, so two or more people
can play the same game but have different
experiences. Players can also turn off the TV
entirely and play on the GamePad, watching
the game on the tablet’s screen and using the
controllers on the sides.
In the “New Super Mario Bros. U,” for
example, players holding the old Wii controllers guide Mario, Luigi and other characters. The person with the GamePad can help
them along by using a stylus on the tablet’s
touch screen to stun enemies or create stepping stones for the characters.
The new Mario game, which will be
available when the Wii U launches, will also
offer new challenges for advanced Mario
players, such as trying to complete a level
without touching the ground.
The Wii U GamePad will be included with each console. But the packages
won’t include the old-school Wii controllers, though they can be used to play the
games. That’s because Nintendo says there
are enough of them out there, considering
that nearly 97 million Wiis have been sold
worldwide — compared with nearly 70
million Xbox 360s and about 64 million
PlayStation 3s.
Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia said
that the Wii U’s technology doesn’t make it
a real, true “next generation” gaming console. He said it really matches the Xbox 360.
“But what has always helped Nintendo
is the games they can put on it that nobody
can,” he added. “They don’t necessarily
need everything to be cutting-edge.”
“Mario,” ‘’Pikmin” and other classic
games have long been Nintendo’s main
draw.
Bhatia said sales expectations for the Wii
U are fairly low, and Nintendo will be considered successful if the number of Wii Us it
sell amounts to half the Wiis it sold.

Bold looks at Fashion Week turn up the volume

NEW YORK (AP) — The
designers previewing spring
collections at New York Fashion
Week may not have had a single
voice, but they all spoke loudly.
“Bold” was the word that
buzzed around the tents at
Lincoln Center after eight days
of previews came to an end
on Thursday. Between saturated
color, sexy cutouts, statementmaking stripes and mixed-up
prints, the clothes had something to say.
“It feels like a statement season,” said Brandon Holley, editor-in-chief of Lucky magazine.
“It feels like everyone is tired
of shopping their closet, and
they’re ready to make a new
statement.”
Retailers are happy to see
newness and bright colors, said
Ken Downing, fashion director
for Neiman Marcus.
“There were some have-tohave things,” said Downing,
who ticked off a sleeveless
jacket, a full skirt that’s either
swingy and short, or cut on the
bias and falling below the knee,
and colored leather — maybe
laser cut? — as items that will
be on the top of the list for
shoppers.
Nearly 200 designers preview
their spring collections in New
York before the fashion crowd
heads to London, Milan and
Paris. In seasons past, it was as
if they all agreed on a message
ahead of time. After the recession started, a hard-edged chick
was the obvious muse. A few
seasons later, everything was
bohemian.
This time, there were certainly clear trends — among
them skirt suits, big colors,
below-the-knee coats, leather,
cutouts, corsets and banding,
stripes and black-and-white.
But there were many muses
instead of one It Girl.
There were hints of India and
other exotic locales. And the
prints were edgier than what
are usually offered in spring —
instead of “pretty” florals, there
were digital renderings, X-ray
patterns, skulls. “If it is a floral,
then it’s photo realism floral,
and that seems very different,”
Holley said.

AP

A model wears a design from Anna Sui’s Spring 2013 collection during Fashion Week in New York.

Even
uptown
staples
Carolina Herrera and Oscar
de la Renta had an edge, with
the latter adding leather and
latex to his society girl.
It’s as through designers
stopped dictating style and
are instead providing options.
There’s your breath of spring
air.
RALPH LAUREN
Statement made, Ralph
Lauren: Be strong. Be bold. Go
on that adventure.
The first look on Ralph
Lauren’s runway featured a turquoise suede poet top, with cascading ruffles down the front,
and the model wore a beret and
carried a studded motorcycle
bag. From there, it was a bright
red hand-crocheted tank dress
and a few looks later was a
tomato red suede jacket with
rustic brown leather details.
A colorful blanket-style serape was getting buzz from editors
and stylists before they even
left the downtown show space
where Olivia Wilde and Jessica
Alba sat in the front row. Lauren

offered the same idea — in the
same green, brown and yellow
colors — in an off-the-shoulder
serape wrap top that probably
more easily fits into the closets
of most customers.
There were beaded bolero
jackets and embellished jodhpur pants that evoked a matador to the Spanish-style music,
with flat-top hats and colorful
scarves around some models’
necks. But taking each piece on
its own, it wasn’t a costume.
CALVIN KLEIN
Francisco Costa, women’s
creative director at Calvin Klein,
got to have final say Thursday at
New York Fashion Week as one
of the last major designers to
preview a spring collection, but
he left a purposeful impression
of things left undone.
It’s what left the crowd
wanting more. Edges were left
frayed, contrasting linings were
revealed, and necklines were
bare and exposed, all giving the
impression that one was seeing
more than they should. A gold
hardware frame peeked atop

the black sheer-panel dress that
closed the show.
Costa has a knack for the
“seductive lines,” he mentioned in his notes. He certainly drew eyes to the bust
and bodice, offering a series
of conical bustiers, which were
exactly what they sound like.
On their own, they were futuristic but also a little harsh;
under a sheer silk corset or
a mesh silk crepe coat, they
were sexy and edgy.
Calvin Klein continued the
many layers of fabrics and textures that have dominated the
runways: an abstract lace dress
goes over a lacquered satin bustier and a bonded mesh skirt,
for example. But the fact that
almost every outfit featured
black here can’t be called part
of that trend — it’s a way of life
for this design house.
MARCHESA
It wasn’t just like Grand
Central at Marchesa’s New
York Fashion Week show on
Wednesday — which drew Kim
Kardashian, Kanye West, Tyra

Banks and all the photographers
who trail them. It was in Grand
Central.
The preview of the spring
collection was staged at the historic train terminal, but it was
hardly rush hour on the runway. The looks turned out by
designers Georgina Chapman
and Keren Craig were typically embellished and intricate,
and required time to study the
details. Models also can’t walk
all that quickly in the gowns that
are jingling with beads or have
slim hemlines.
Thanks to the Indian inspiration — via the Beatles’ 1960s
experience with the Maharishi
— there were more colorful
hues and easier-to-wear silhouettes than in recent Marchesa
collections.
“Last season was Baroque
and darker, and the season
before that was very ornate,”
Chapman said in a preshow
interview. “It’s a different
mood this season.”
What fashion insiders
are really looking for from
Marchesa is a clue of what
will soon come on Hollywood
red carpets. After this, it’s safe
to say the stars may be wearing some high-neck gowns,
either covered in tassel fringe
or metallic beads — or both
— and maybe a peacock-blue,
one-shouldered tulle gown
worn over a fully embroidered
gold-leaf illusion bodysuit
that gave the appearance of
glittering body art.
PROENZA SCHOULER
The real-people-in-the-pool
print on Proenza Schouler’s
catwalk Wednesday night
probably took some fashion
insiders — who don’t expect
that much newness during
these previews — by surprise.
The collection by Lazaro
Hernandez
and
Jack
McCollough started off by
advancing some trends seen
for spring, including leather,
patchwork, some perforated
and mesh textures. The leather was a little shinier, the
patchwork a little more random and the textures a little
more exaggerated, but, still,
they fell in line.

» A Campus In Style

What to know
about high
fashion labels
By Jamil Larkins
Campus Correspondent

Normally, designer and luxury wear isn’t my speciality.
For obvious reasons, I can’t
afford 90 percent of styles that
float down a runway. At this
point, I could feasibly purchase
the shoelaces and maybe inner
soles of a pair of Margiela or
Louboutin sneakers, but that’s
about it. However, through the
media, anyone watching television or reading magazines is at
least exposed to a wide variety of designers and brands.
Whether fashion weeks in Paris
or New York, people all around
the world direct their attention
to designers and celebrities and
the newest styles.
In American pop culture,
luxury French brand Givenchy
has become a go-to label for
musicians, athletes and many
others. The House of Givenchy
was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy. Now, it
is a part of the Voltron-like
French company LVMH, along
side other huge divisions like
Christian Dior, Marc Jacobs,
Hennessy, Hublot and Louis
Vuitton. In more recent years,
this brand has expanded into
major media markets under
the leadership of two designers, Ricardo Tisci and Ozwald
Boateng.

“...through media
exposure, anyone
watching television... is at least
exposed to a wide
variety of designers and brands”

In 2005, Tisci took over as
chief designer of women’s
wear, a throne previously
held by John Galliano, Julien
Macdonald and Alexander
McQueen. His gothic and minimalist style, combined with
a keen eye for geometric patterns, have created some of
the more famous images of
the Givenchy line. Amongst
the most popular, the “Birds of
Paradise” print was featured on
t-shirts, pants, hats and blazers
(for a high price of course; a
t-shirt goes for around $300$500).
Givenchy’s graphic t-shirts
are the most popular item,
which isn’t what one would
expect from a high fashion
label. With help from rappers
like Rick Ross, ASAP Rocky,
Danny Brown, Pusha T and Big
Sean, the t-shirts are becoming even more of a popular
craze. Along with the “Birds of
Paradise” image, other designs
include last year’s Rottweiler
design and this year’s “Jaws”like shark print. Even New York
Knicks star Amare Stoudemire
has been seen in public with
the shark print sweater.
For Ticsi, individual fame
came through last year’s collaboration with rappers Kanye
West and Jay-Z. Tisci designed
the artwork for the duo’s single
“H.A.M.”, as well as the album
art for their very successful
album, “Watch The Throne”.
During Kanye and Jay’s tour
around the world, Tisci also
designed their merch and
wardrobe. Next week, Kanye
West is set to release an album,
entitled “Cruel Summer.” The
artwork for the album came
out a few days ago, and Tisci is
seemingly the brain behind this
creation as well.

Jamil.Larkins@UConn.edu

Friday, September 14, 2012

Deena gets 2-year ban
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J.
(AP) — “Jersey Shore” is over
and done in Seaside Heights,
but the MTV reality show is still
causing aggravation for some
folks here.
New Jersey liquor regulators
said Thursday that they have
fined a Seaside Heights cantina
$15,000 for serving a “visibly
intoxicated” Deena Cortese just
before she wandered out into
traffic in June.
As a condition of an agreement negotiated with Spicy
Cantina & Mexican Grill,
Cortese is banned from the
premises for two years.
According to New Jersey’s
Division of Alcoholic Beverage
Control, Cortese and an entourage that included an MTV film
crew were at the restaurant for
90 minutes on June 10. During
that time, Cortese walked on
the bar, fell to the ground, then
climbed up and stood on a red
bench at a table of restaurant
patrons.
Cortese also left the premises
with an alcoholic beverage — a
big no-no in New Jersey —
walked onto the boardwalk and
returned to the bar a short time
later.
“This settlement is a cautionary tale for licensees who might
think ignoring the law for the
sake of air time is good for business,” said Michael Halfacre,
the division’s director. “By turning a blind eye to the mayhem
that can be associated with reality television, you are risking
your livelihood. That is, without
a doubt, bad for business.”
A woman who answered the
telephone at Spicy Cantina on
Thursday said no one from the
business would comment on the
settlement.
MTV recently announced that
“Jersey Shore” will conclude
after its upcoming sixth season, which begins Oct. 4. The
series features a cast of overtanned, over-loud and always
pumped-up characters who tried
the patience of local residents
with their party-hearty antics.
The show strayed from Jersey
during its run, taking the cast to
Miami Beach and Italy.

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Cortese, 25, was arrested
by Seaside Heights police for
disorderly conduct. According
to police reports, Cortese was
observed running out of Spicy
Cantina and into the street.
She began dancing in the
intersection and appeared to be
intoxicated after losing her balance several times, the alcohol division said. Cortese then
walked down a street, grabbed
the trunk of a car and continued
to dance.
Seaside Heights Police said
her behavior was seriously
restricting the flow of the traffic
and then placed her under arrest.
Afterward, state officials said,
Cortese told police she had been
drinking throughout the day.
At a municipal court appearance a month later, she pleaded
guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine. (Her
plea came in the same courtroom where “Jersey Shore” pal
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi pleaded
guilty to disturbing other beachgoers in 2010.)
Cortese apologized to the
court, then got a talking-to from
her mother.
She also had to pay $33
in court costs but avoided a
criminal conviction by pleading
guilty to a violation of the motor
vehicle code.
In the settlement with the
state, Spicy Cantina also admitted serving Cortese drinks she
did not order, which is illegal
in New Jersey. Four employees
from the restaurant submitted
a letter to the alcohol division
explaining that Cortese was
served one alcoholic drink — a
vodka and club soda — then
was deemed to be intoxicated by
the bar management.
According to the letter, after
cutting Cortese off, “she was
served several shots of water,
which she thought contained
alcohol. She was also served
non-alcoholic drink mix with
fruit garnish. She drank multiple
glasses without realizing that
she was not drinking alcohol.”
The business faces a 10-day
suspension of its liquor license
if it violates state alcohol laws
over the next two years.

Channing Tatum stars in five films in 2012

Jewel’s
new song,
‘Flower’
for cancer
survivors

AP

This file photo released by Anchor Bay Films shows Channing Tatum, left, and Rosario Dawson in a scene from “10 Years.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If it seems like
Channing Tatum is everywhere, it’s probably
because he is. He’s appeared in five films this
year alone, with the latest being this weekend’s
ensemble comedy-drama “10 Years.” The roles
have come in every imaginable genre, each strikingly different from the last.
And hey, what do you know? Five is a magic
number around here. So let’s rank Tatum’s 2012
performances, in order of preference:
“21 Jump Street”: Comedy is so underappreciated, and what Tatum does here is especially
tough: He plays the straight man opposite a
much more established comedian, Jonah Hill.
(Who is, come to think of it, also the straight
man.) And yet, Tatum also has to let himself
get a little goofy and toy with his hunky image
as the film itself gets goofy, which he does
with great enthusiasm. Satirically inspired by
the ‘80s TV series, “21 Jump Street” features
Tatum playing a former jock who returns to
high school as an undercover police officer
alongside his partner (Hill), the nerd he used to
torment way back when. It’s rowdy and raunchy but Tatum and Hill share an unexpectedly
sweet chemistry.
— “Magic Mike”: The perfect blend of Tatum’s
muscular good looks, dramatic ability and dance
skills. Steven Soderbergh’s behind-the-scenes
look at the life of a male stripper also happens to
be one that’s close to Tatum’s heart: He worked
briefly as an exotic dancer before breaking into
acting. Anyone who saw the original “Step Up”
from 2006, the movie that put Tatum on the map,
knows what a gifted dancer he is. But here, he’s
just mesmerizing: confident, creative, acrobatic
and, above all, seductive. He’s just as charismatic offstage, though, as he shows a young Alex
Pettyfer the
ropes
and
tries to show
Pettyfer’s sister he’s a good
guy after all.
Tatum
also
enjoys a couple of intense
showdowns
with Matthew
McConaughey

as the swaggering strip club owner.
“The Vow”: Tatum shows his romantic leadingman side in this old-fashioned, heart-tugging
amnesia story. He stars as Leo, who struggles to
remind his wife, Paige (Rachel McAdams), that
they were happily in love after a car accident
wipes out the last five years of her memories.
Tatum is saddled with a whole lot of explanatory
voicevoer, full of obvious platitudes about life
being a series of moments of impact, blah blah
blah, but his sense of ache and sorrow is believable. It’s a nice idea: experiencing what it’s like to
fall in love all over again for the first time. Tatum
and McAdams sometimes make the execution of
it more tolerable than it should be, but not often
enough. This movie was hugely popular, grossing nearly $200 million when it came out back in
February. I found it contrived and treacly because
I’m cold and soulless.
“Haywire”: In Tatum’s first pairing with
Soderbergh this year, he mainly had to act like
MMA superstar Gina Carano wasn’t going to
beat the complete crap out of him. At least, not
immediately. Because she easily could have —
and she could have with all her stars, including Michael Fassbender and Ewan McGregor
— which required her to hold back a little
while doing her own stunts here in her feature
film debut. At the film’s start, a hungover and
impatient Tatum meets up with Carano’s character, a covert-ops specialist, after a mission
in Barcelona. He was her partner on the job,
and he may or may not be trustworthy. A tense
conversation quickly turns into a knock-down,
drag-out brawl in a small-town diner.
“10 Years”: His latest isn’t exactly his best.
Then again, he’s part of a large ensemble
that includes larger personalities, including
Ari Graynor, Chris Pratt and Anthony Mackie,
and his role is comparatively low-key and formulaic. Tatum plays one of several old friends
who’ve gathered for their 10-year high school
reunion. He’s brought with him his longtime
girlfriend (played by his real-life wife and
“Step Up” co-star, the equally gorgeous Jenna
Dewan). He’s also brought along the engagement ring he plans to give her, but he’s had
trouble finding the right opportunity to pop the
question — plus, as we learn in one of the film’s
many intertwined storylines.

NEW ORLEANS (AP)
— Singer-songwriter Jewel
has penned numerous lyrics empowering women after
heartbreak and loss, and now
she hopes to do the same for
breast cancer survivors.
Jewel’s
latest
song,
“Flower,” was written to raise
awareness about the importance of breast reconstruction
options for breast cancer survivors. The singer is heading
to New Orleans next month to
perform “Flower” and other
hits at a benefit concert for
the cause.
“Reconstruction is a huge
part of the healing process,”
Jewel told The Associated
Press. “It’s not just vanity.
It’s a part of what makes us
women. It’s a part of our identity as women. Patients should
at least be informed about
their options.”
Jewel said she originally
wrote “Flower” years ago as
a relationship-based song. It
was never released, but it was
about empowering women.
“The chorus in that song
kept coming back to me, and
I thought it was so fitting for
this cause, so I rewrote the
lyrics for these women,” she
said.
The chorus compares a
woman battling cancer to “a
flower pushing up through
concrete to thrive.”
Jewel shot to fame in 1996
with her self-written breakout hit, “Who Will Save Your
Soul,” and has had success in
pop and country genres with
hits like “Stronger Woman,”
‘’Foolish Games,” ‘’You Were
Meant For Me,” ‘’Hands,”
‘’Stand” and “Intuition.”
She said she was surprised
to hear a lot of breast cancer survivors are not informed
about their breast reconstruction options, even though
reconstruction is now considered a medically necessary
part of breast cancer treatment
that is covered by Medicare
and most major insurance providers.
“There should be a plastic surgeon involved from the
very beginning,” she said.
“We have to be our own advocates.”
Jewel is the national
spokeswoman for the Beast
Reconstruction Awareness
(BRA) campaign and has
partnered with the American
Society of Plastic Surgeons
and the Plastic Surgery
Foundation to raise awareness
and money for breast reconstruction-related research and
to the charitable care of breast
reconstruction patients.
Proceeds generated by
downloads of “Flower” on
iTunes or Amazon.com will
benefit the effort, as will
proceeds from the Oct. 29
concert at the New Orleans
Theater in the Ernest N.
Morial Convention Center.
Tickets for the concert go
on sale Friday.
Jewel says she’s always
considered herself an advocate for women but since
becoming a mother last summer to her now 1-year-old
son, Kase, “I’m an even bigger fan of women.”
Kase is the first child for
Jewel and her champion bull
rider husband, Ty Murray.
They live on a ranch in
Stephenville, Texas.
“Becoming a mom, I gained
so much more respect for
women and what they go
through,” she said.
Motherhood
has
also
inspired new work: Jewel
wrote and recorded two soothing child-friendly albums —
“Lullaby” and “The Merry
Goes ‘Round.” On Sept. 18,
she’s releasing a children’s
book called “That’s What I’ll
Do,” which will include a CD
accompaniment of a song by
the same title.
“It’s a love song I wrote for
my son,” she said. “It’s one I
sing to him every night. It’s
a creative, fanciful, whimsical way of telling him all the
ways that I love him, and it’s
a song I thought other parents would enjoy sharing with
their children.”

he rise in citizen journalism, in the form of blogs,
cell phone videos and other mediums, is a well-documented trend that shows no signs of slowing down. As
communication technology continues to become more
accessible, ordinary people have been able to share news with
their friends, family, acquaintances and even strangers. Recent
events such as the shooting at the Empire State Building saw
quicker coverage, including video footage and commentary,
from these citizen journalists than from traditional media outlets.
But coverage of events is not the only upward trend in citizen
journalism. Ordinary people are increasingly taking on roles
previously dominated by the mainstream media. This has been
very notable in the area of fact-checking, an activity that used
to be out of reach for an unprofessional consumer of news.
However, with internet access becoming more widespread, citizens are able to independently confirm or refute points made by
their elected officials and other public figures. This is leading
to an increase in scrutiny, and therefore, an increase in transparency. The rise in citizen fact-checking has the potential to make
our government much more honest than in years past.
This is especially useful during presidential campaign season. Republicans and Democrats alike seem to be focused
almost exclusively on winning the election this November,
and are often willing to sacrifice truth for politically convenient statements. Yet this campaign has seen an unprecedented
amount of coverage on the lies perpetrated by both parties,
thanks to a large community of citizen fact-checkers. When
Paul Ryan blamed Obama for the closing of an auto factory
during his speech at the Republican National Convention, the
internet was ablaze with individuals writing about how the
factory actually closed on George W. Bush’s watch. When Bill
Clinton credited President Obama’s Affordable Care Act with
lowering health care spending, bloggers, tweeters and other
posters quickly pointed out that most of its provisions have not
yet taken effect.
New technology has also empowered smaller media outlets,
including student-run newspapers, to fact-check national politicians just as effectively as established media organizations.
Formerly, journalists and others in the mainstream media
were the only people with the time and resources to fact-check
every word uttered by a presidential candidate. But today, that
power has become much more widespread, enabling details as
minor as Paul Ryan’s marathon time to emerge as front-andcenter news stories. If continued, this spread of fact-checking
will go a long way toward making our democracy healthier
and more accountable. We are all fact-checkers now, and that’s
a good thing.
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Since he’s retired, is it legal now to make an emoji of
Calhoun’s face? People are getting that whenever I’m
feeling intesne.
It’s always uncomfortable when a friend you haven’t
seen in a year cheerfully informs you that you’ve lost so
much weight...and you weigh exactly the same as you
did a year ago.
Why wasn’t all of Gampel filled with students today?
Where were all you people?!
It’s the weekend! Gonna go to a huge party and get
with tons of girls! And by that I mean see a girl I like,
get scared, talk to her for like 30 seconds and feel bad
about myself the rest of the night...
I’m going to miss Calhoun terribly, but I am so hyped to
be able to refer to Kevin Ollie as Coach KO.
I love it when politicians are forced to go multiple generations back in their family tree to provide an anecdote
that implies they have some concept of what it’s like to
not have gobs of money.
#TakeTheStairs
“The first step to being special is to believe you’re
special...I’m one of the luckiest people alive.” No Jim,
we’re the lucky ones. Thank you for 26 amazing years.

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Beatles deserve more credit for Revolution 9

T

he Beatles wrote and performed
what is perhaps the world’s most
widely recognized and beloved
music. It seems that, even forty
years after the Fab Four’s dissolution,
their music is played no less often on
the radio or on the earphones of millions
than it was in the 1960s. Though I do
not consider myself a Beatles fan (there
are only four or
five songs in the
Beatles’ oeuvre
that I enjoy and
listen to frequently), I must admit
that the band’s
musical achievements were, and
remain, absolutely titanic.
By Chris Kempf
The
Beatles’
Weekly Columnist
greatest contribution to musical art
is not graced by
the same adulation as is much of their
work. It towers over the charming songs
of the White Album, infusing it with a
dissonant darkness unexpected on an
album whose name evokes levity and
clarity. “Revolution 9” is hated, feared,
avoided and unappreciated by most, but
its haunting, droning intonation of “number nine, number nine, number nine…”
is as instantly recognizable as any of The
Beatles’ beloved lyrics. It is the most
complex, intricate and powerful composition of the band’s entire catalogue.
“Number Nine” is a sound collage, an
avant-garde experiment with a form of
composition called musique concrète.
Works composed accordingly are not

limited to guitar, bass and drums or
even to orchestra instruments. They
commonly use recorded sounds, spoken
words and electronic tones. In “Number
Nine” clips of operatic fanfares are
fused together into a cohesive composition with football chants (“Block that
kick!”), inane chatter between George
Harrison and Ringo Starr, and the drone
of aircraft and road traffic. The hundreds of individual elements comprising
“Revolution 9” are looped, played backwards, distorted, rapidly shifted between
stereo channels and swell from very soft
to very loud and back again, weaving
in and out of the overall texture of the
music. It is a work of staggering complexity that perhaps has been so poorly
received due to the incredibly daunting
effort needed just to understand it. Even
today, there are many musical elements
in the composition that remain unknown.
No one knows who is performing them
or who composed them. “Number Nine”
still hides away innumerable secrets in
this regard.
John Lennon, who was almost entirely
responsible for the concept and arrangement of “Revolution 9,” despite its
attribution to “Lennon-McCartney,”
described it as a “painting in sound [of]
a picture of revolution.”
We can’t be sure if Lennon meant his
composition to have a specific political meaning, but what we can say with
certainty is that “Number Nine” takes
part in a revolution of artistic expression
and broadcasts a particular revolutionary viewpoint to an unwitting consumer
audience. It demonstrates that it is possible to crate art that relies upon allusion

not as a device, but as a basic constitutive element of a composition. Though
the song was not the first piece of art to
be written in this way – James Joyce’s
“Ulysses” predates it by fifty years – it
showed that the recording studio itself
can act as a musical instrument or an
ensemble in the arrangement of old elements to create new meanings.
It is difficult, however, to decipher
those new meanings when confronted
with such complexity as we find in
“Revolution 9.” This, in a way, bespeaks
the paradox of modern life. Everywhere
in the world, we are surrounded by
information demanding to be processed
by our brains, but the sheer volume
overwhelms us and we are unable to
understand much of it.
It may be that “Revolution 9” disturbs
and confounds so many people because
it reminds them too vividly of the nature
of their world. Life is not like “Love
Me Do” or “Let It Be,” though we often
imagine it to be so. Life is instead a
mix tape of sorts, a sound collage full
of charm, insanity, horror and, perhaps,
even beauty. I think this is for the best.
After all, not much about “Love Me Do”
is left up to interpretation. The greatness
of “Number Nine” is that it is rich with
disparate and elaborate meanings, and
that each listener is free to call his own
meaning into existence.

Weekly Columnist Chris Kempf is a 5th-semester
political science major. He can be reached at
Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu.

Female superheroes: The Where’s Waldo of the film industry

M

aybe I’m a little
spoiled
from
growing up on
“Kim Possible”
cartoons and spending most
of my time in high school
watching “Buffy the Vampire
Slayer.” I have no issue with
strong female characters who
aren’t afraid to kick butt, even
in their prom dresses. Still, after
a summer filled with actionpacked
superhero
By Victoria Kallsen r e l e a s e s ,
Staff Columnist
I’m a little taken
aback that
Hollywood is stalling on a true
superheroine film. I fail to
see the problem with making
one. The top three superhero
franchises of all time are the
Marvel Cinematic Universe
(the Avengers heroes), Batman
and Spiderman, which rank
fourth, sixth and eigth respectively for all franchises worldwide. Together, these three
franchises have spawned over
18 films have raked in a nice
$10,713,565,261 in worldwide
grosses. There is quite obviously an impetus for production companies to continue to
adapt superheroes into moneymaking film franchises.
But how do female heroines fair at the box office?

QW

The good news is that when
a strong female heroine film
is made, like this year’s “The
Hunger Games,” which stars
Jennifer Lawerence as Katniss
Everdeen, it is extremely successful. The worldwide earnings for the film are a little
over $408 million. This is
much more than the lowest
Marvel Cinematic Universe
earner, “The Incredible Hulk”
which made $134.8 million.
“The Hunger Games” is now
touted as the highest-grossing
action heroine movie of all
time. But the problem here
is that the second place holder, “Terminator 2: Judgement
Day,” with Linda Hamilton as
Sarah Connor. It was released
in 1991, a little over 20 years
before Katniss could take
the crown. Of the top fifteen
action heroine movies, “Mr.
and Mrs. Smith” is the most
recent before “The Hunger
Games.” But that was made
in 2005. Why is there such a
lull in popular super heroine
movies?
Perhaps we can start by saying that part of the problem is
that only 11 percent of clearly
identifiable protagonists last
year were women, while only
33 percent of all characters in
films were female, according
to The Washington Post. With

the success of “The Hunger
Games” this year, it would
not hurt production companies
to churn out a nice Wonder
Women flick, especially since
DC comics is lacking in the
film market right now.
Is it too difficult to greenlight a production starring the
most easily identifiable female
superheroine, whose outfit is
a strapless top and shorts? It
actually is, considering the
project has been in development hell since 2001, with no
mention of the subject since
2011. Joss Whedon, the creator
of Buffy, was on board for two
years, but left the project in
2007 after creative differences,
adding in an interview with
The A.V. Club, “I would go
back in a heartbeat if I believed
that anybody believed in what
I was doing. The lack of enthusiasm was overwhelming.”
Isn’t that what’s really the
issue here? A lack of enthusiasm? Production companies
are too afraid of losing their
teenage boy demographic to
focus on strong female characters. Women who work in the
film industry only account for
33 percent of it and their voices are rarely heard. Perhaps
the problem lies in the fact that
most females in comic books
are love interests, sidekicks or

heroes that work with a larger
group or another superhero,
as is the case in “X-Men.”
Compounding this, the only
two technically superheroine
films that have been released
are “Catwoman” (2004) and
“Electra” (2005), both of
which depended on a male
superhero in the original comics for backstory.
Regardless, there are strong
female characters like Wonder
Woman and 40 percent of the
audience for “The Avengers”
was female, according to NBC
News, so the female demographic is certainly viable.
Imagine the response to a
proper female heroine protagonist. The true loss is not
just in revenue to production
companies or the film industry,
but to the girls who can’t find
any female superhero they can
aspire to be. The target demographic for superhero films
needs to expand, or valuable
film ideas will continue to be
passed by in favor of male
superheroes who only need a
female character around as a
love interest.

Staff Columnist Victoria Kallsen is a 3rd--semester mechanical engineering major. She can be
reached at Victoria.Kallsen@UConn.edu.

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seems only 96,000 jobs were added last month . A nd half of
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Our personal American argument with oil resources

O

il is the energy
that allows modern
society to thrive.
Unfortunately, it is
non-renewable, meaning once
it runs out, it’s gone. In 2010,
Russia discovered a massive oil
field in East
Siberia.
By Carleton Whaley The deposit
Staff Columnist
was said to
hold at least
150 million
metric tons of oil (around 1.1
billion barrels), and for Russia,
the world’s leading oil exporter, this was certainly a boon.
The world rejoiced at this new
discovery, while simultaneously decrying oil and its hazards
to the planet, pollution and
energy efficiency. The United
States, in fact, seems to be the
prime example of; this twofaced argument. At the same

time that we call for more
efficient, clean energies, we
are elated to know that there is
more oil in the world to sustain
us for a little longer.
The reality is that oil is not
going to be in the future much
longer, or at least it cannot
be if the human race is going
to survive the way it has thus
far. Oil is like an infection to
us. Instead of seeking treatment, we chose to ignore the
problem, despite knowing that
oil will run out. We consume it
rapidly: the United States holds
only 5 percent of the world’s
populace, but consumes 25
percent of its oil. On a daily
basis, that average American
uses more than twice the oil of
those in the European Union,
and every year our country
consumes 7.6 billion barrels.
That makes Russia’s discovery

seem a bit less massive, I suppose. That’s all right, though,
because while Russia exports
6 percent of its total oil to the
Americas (with 5 percent going
only to the United States), it
provides only 4 percent of
our total oil imports. So we
basically import more oil than
Russia can export, from all
over the world.
There is, however, good
news. Today, energy is even
more at the forefront of everyone’s mind, especially in a
political sense, and several
steps have been taken to foster alternate energy, such as
tax incentives and the Energy
Star program, which labels
devices that use 20 percent to
30 percent less energy than
is required by government
standards. Even our rising gas
prices, which are constantly

» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Libertarian
Party
deserves mention in
Allen article

I am writing in response to Kristi
Allen’s September 12 commentary
article, “Media needs to do a better job at covering third party candidates”. I completely agree with
Allen’s sentiments that the dissatisfaction levels with the current status
quo in US politics indicate a pressing
need for the mainstream media to

acknowledge the importance
third
Totallyofsaw
parties. It is true that the media cannot merely ignore this popular undercurrent in an attempt to stifle it. In
fact, social media has already proven
to be an able force, largely taking the
mainstream media’s place on third
party coverage.
However, given the well-thought
out nature of the piece, I was surprised
that any mention of Gary Johnson and
the Libertarian Party was absent from
the article. I realize that this article is
not a platform for advocating for any
particular third party, but I believe

lamented, are a positive sign
of change. European markets
saw the prices we are facing

“The reality is
that oil is not
going to be in
the future much
longer....”
(around $4 a gallon) long ago,
and this forced them to have
tighter regulations on vehicle
efficiency, which is necessary
to wean us off oil. After all,
automobiles in general account
for 60 percent of oil use, with
most of that being personal
vehicles. As prices go up, there

that not mentioning the fact that Gary
Johnson is on the presidential ballot
in 47 states is a serious omission.
While Allen details the resistance to
the current system, and the challenges
ahead for third party voters via the
mainstream media roadblocks, the
article misses out on an opportunity
to motivate potentially on-the-fence
third party voters.
By not giving a concrete example
of third party success on the road to
the 2012 election and showing that
changes are already occurring despite
mainstream media stonewalling,
Allen misses a chance to do exactly
what she says the mainstream media
has not done, to show that peoples’

is more and more reason to
look to improving sustainable,
alternative energy.
However, the fight for freedom from oil is a personal one;
as we have seen, there is little
the government can actually do
when it comes to demanding
better technology and cleaner
fuel from companies that rely
on oil. People naturally resist
change, and we as a society
have been in the grip of fossil fuels for so long that their
depletion seems a distant problem. “Oh, leave that to the
next generation,” we seem to
be saying, as our predecessors
said of us. But it is within our
power, individually, to advance
technologies and implement
smart energy-saving procedures. Whether it is something
costly that will save you in the
end, like buying solar panels,

complaints have been heard by third
parties, and to show that at least one
of those parties is finally in strong
Totally
rad to potentially, as the
enough
position
common lament goes, “do something
about it”.
Briefly mentioning Johnson’s success would have shown even more
strongly that Allen’s pro-voter choice
sentiments are not merely idealistic
college newspaper musings, but are
thoughts that truly are in the forefront
of many Americans’ minds this election year. Mentioning Johnson and
the Libertarians’ success would have
served as an salient example proving
that at least one third party is finally
in a position to cash in on their appeal

an electric car or fuel cells, or
simple things like relying more
on natural light, putting bubble
wrap over your windows in
winter to save on heat or using
PVC pipes and glass bottles to
make a greenhouse, it doesn’t
matter. In an age when the
inner workings of technology
and inventions are unknown to
many, everyone should aspire
to be a maker. Do things that
will affect your life in an ecofriendly way. If enough people
do that, we won’t need the
government to tell us one day
that we need to invest in green
energy. We will tell them that,
as a government by and for
the people, and they will listen
to us.

Staff Columnist Carleton Whaley is a 1st-semester English major. He can be reached at Carleton.
Whaley@UConn.edu.

to Americans as a whole, despite the
mainstream media blackout.
Finally, there is the inspirational
point that, if it can work for one third
party, with enough voter activism it
can surely work for others. As this
new realization spreads and leads to
action on the part of the electorate,
we could truly bring change to this
country, unlike what we were promised 4 years ago.
– John Tyczkowski

» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD

So what sidewalks
on campus CAN I
walk on?
Goodbye,
Coach

Totally
bad

FroyoWorld is here,
and it is delicious.

The lottery system
will probably still
be awful.

Totally saw
it coming

Welcome,
Coach!

Totally
rad

What is the coolest thing in your backpack?
– By Lindsay Collier

“What’s left of my dignity..”

“The receipt for the fish I just bought.

“The syringes I use for my diabtes.”

“My spikey backpack itself is
pretty interesting.”

Jay Mehta, 5th-semester
biology major

Jen Farina 5th-semester HDFS and
psychology double major

Chris Tarantino, 5th-semester
pharmacy major

Alexis Jensen, 1st-semester
exploratory major

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» WOMEN'S SOCCER

» VOLLEYBALL

Huskies prepare to face Red Storm
By T.J. Souhlaris
Campus Correspondent
The UConn women’s soccer
team (4-2-1) will travel south
from Syracuse this weekend
to take on the St. John’s Red
Storm in a Big East American
Division match-up in Queens,

N.Y.
The game will be played at
1 p.m. on Sunday. It will be
the third away game of the
Huskies’ five-game road trip.
A lot of the Huskies’ success this season can be attributed to their offense. UConn
ranks first in the Big East in
goals, with 18. Fifteen of these

JESS CONDON/The Daily Campus

UConn senior Michelle Baj moves the ball up the field for the UConn Huskies.

have come with assists. The
Red Storm (4-3-0) can’t say
the same. They have struggled
to find the back of the net,
with only eight goals in seven
games. The Red Storm have
allowed 13 goals, although they
still possess a winning record.
Head Coach Len Tsantiris
likes his team this season, even
with their relative inexperience.
“We have a lot of young
kids, but we got depth,”
Tsantiris said a week ago,
after the Huskies’ victory
against Marist. “We’re young
and we gotta learn…we gotta
be ready for Big East play.”
The two teams’ best players
come from different side of
the ball. UConn’s senior striker Danielle Schulmann is the
reigning Big East Offensive
Player of the Week, while
St. John’s junior midfielder
Sandra Osborn is Big East
Defensive Player of the Week.

» MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

Both teams also have a freshman goalkeeper. UConn’s
Alison Saucier has allowed 11
goals and made 19 saves on
the season. St. John’s Ellen
Conway was voted honorable
mention Big East Goalkeeper
of the Week.
In last season’s tilt with the
Red Storm, the Huskies were
topped, 1-0, in extra time. In
the second minute of bonus
soccer, St. John’s had a goal
kick that was headed to striker Jen Leaverton. Leaverton
scored the lone goal at 91:23
to give the Huskies their first
loss in Big East play. The
Johnnies were later bounced
in the first round of the Big
East Tournament.
Like the rest of the UConn
soccer events, the game can be
followed on 91.7 FM WHUS
or online at whus.org.

After weeks of training, the
UConn men’s cross country
team returns to action Saturday at
11:30 a.m. at the UMass Invite in
Amherst, Mass..
Toeing the line for the five-mile
race will be a squad of experienced Connecticut athletes, as
well as respectable New England
teams from UMaine, Vermont,
American International College,
Amherst College and UMass.
At last year’s invite, senior Nick
Aguila led the Huskies to a team
title, but the loss of the former
captain and the emergence of some
talented underclassmen and middle
distance runners will bring a new
team dynamic to the starting line
on Saturday.
“Our whole group is com-

petitive,” said Coach Richard
Miller. “Jordan Magath and
Ryan McGuire could contend to
win the race, and our three track
guys—Joe Clark, Tim Bennatan,
and Alex Bennatan are working to
close the gap [with the lead pack]
from last year.”
Connecticut’s lineup features
six freshmen, who will not race
Saturday in order to get some
additional training under their
belts before they make their collegiate debuts. These newcomers begin their college careers
with varied experience levels,
and should be contributing to the
squad in the near future.
With the combination of frontrunners Jordan and Ryan and
depth from UConn’s middle distance standouts, Miller believes
his squad is positioned to defend
its 2011 victory. But UMass will
prove a difficult challenge for

the Huskies. The Minutemen,
although unranked in the
Northeast region so far this season, should still be a formidable
competitor.
“UMass is a very solid team,”
Miller said. “Seeing how we stack
up against them is a good measure
of where we stand.”
Although UConn is currently
ranked No. 13 in the Northeast,
a decline from their tenth-place
finish at the 2011 regional meet,
the team is not placing too much
emphasis on rankings yet. The
Huskies are coming off another
grueling week of training and will
use this meet as more of a workout than a serious race. They will
continue to train intensely through
mid-October before they start to
fine-tune their fitness for specific
championship meets.
“At the end of the day, the championship meets—the New England

Abigail.Mace@UConn.edu

Linebacker group faces test with Maryland backfield
from A REUNION, page 12
The Huskies have enjoyed success this
year against their opponents’ run game. In
two games, UConn has only allowed 57
rushing yards total and zero touchdowns.
Pasqualoni attributes this success to mixing things up on defense to confuse opposing offense.
“We mix it up a lot, we bring some extra
guys in there,” said Pasqualoni. “Most of the
time, or part of the time, we got one more guy
in there to make the block, and that’s been
pretty good for us.”

Maryland is coming off a 36-27 victory
over Temple, and the Terps are off to a 2-0
start on the season. Maryland quarterback
Perry Hills has thrown for 335 yards on the
season and as two touchdowns, along with
three interceptions.
In the Terrapins’ backfield, sophomore running back Justus Pickett has found himself in
a comfortable role as a starter. He scored the
eventual game-winning score in Maryland’s
first game against William and Mary. In the
game against Temple, Pickett rushed for 69
yards, including a seven-yard touchdown, to
help seal the victory for the Terrapins.

UConn to play
its first home
game in 13 days
By Tim Fontenault
Campus Correspondent

The UConn volleyball team
(6-5) will play its first match
at home in 13 days, when it
hosts the Harvard Crimson
today in Gampel Pavilion.
The match is the first of
three games for the Huskies
this weekend as part of the
New England Challenge.
After
today’s
match,
both teams will head to
Thomas.Souhlaris@UConn.edu
Northeastern University in
Boston for matches against
Northeastern and Boston
College on Saturday.
UConn is coming off a
tough weekend. The Huskies
played four games at the Dr.
Championship, the Big East Mary Jo Wynn Invitational
Championship and the Regional at Missouri State University,
Championship—are the gauges of splitting the weekend with a
our team performance,” Miller said. record of 2-2.
Even considering the loss of Aguila
UConn won one match each
and other seniors from the 2011 of the two days. On Friday,
season, UConn seems to be having the Huskies defeated New
no problem finding athletes to step Orleans University 3-0 before
up and perform at the team’s high- losing to Missouri State 3-0.
est level.
On Saturday, the Huskies
“Our top three guys are as played their first five-set
good as anyone last year,” Miller match of the year, defeating
said. “And we are looking for our Nebraska-Omaha 3-2, but
next four to step up and close the then lost to the Huskies of
gap on the front pack.”
Northern Illinois, 3-1.
While the entire season lies
The usual suspects led the
ahead of them, Miller notes that way for UConn. Sophomore
the Huskies have a solid base mile- Devon Maugle was named
age and are in great shape, which
should prime them for excellence
at not only the UMass Invite this
weekend, but throughout the championship season.

Huskies ready for year's first meet

By Abby Mace
Campus Correspondent

Friday, September 14, 2012

Sports

Pasqualoni has been impressed so far by the
strength of Maryland’s program, especially
among the wide receivers and running backs.
“Their wide receivers fit the job description of what they’re asking them to do,”
said Pasqualoni. “The backs are good backs.
Brown was a highly recruited kid. He’s getting
some touches and he’s pretty athletic.”
The Huskies will kick off against Maryland
tomorrow at 12:29 p.m. from Byrd Stadium in
College Park, Md.

Tyler.Morrissey@UConn.edu

to the All-Tournament Team.
Seniors Mattison Quayle and
Kelsey Maving once again
played key roles for the
Huskies.
The Crimson are 2-4 to start
the season. In last weekend’s
Harvard Invitational, they got
their first two wins of the season, defeating Manhattan and
Providence. Their final match
of the weekend was a 3-0 loss
to Northern Kentucky.
The Boston College Eagles
are off to a 6-4 start in 2012.
UConn’s first opponent on
Saturday is coming off an
impressive weekend during which, despite losing
to Tennessee, they defeated Maryland and George
Washington.
Northeastern
have
impressed thus far this season. At 8-3, the Huskies have
dropped only 13 sets in their
first 11 games and are coming
off a 2-1 weekend at the Duke
Classic in Durham, N.C., with
their only loss being to the
Blue Devils.
The Huskies have only four
matches remaining before the
Big East Conference begins.
Their last match before conference play starts is Wednesday
at Sacred Heart.

– New UConn men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie on the process
of building UConn basketball in the future.

Men’s Soccer (4-0-1)
Today
Harvard
4 p.m.

The Daily Question
Q : “What will you remember most about Jim Calhoun’s illustrious career?”
A : “I can’t choose just one thing. It’s such a daunting question.”

“We’re gonna take the stairs and not the escalator
because the escalator is for cowards.”

Football (1-1)
Sept. 15
Maryland
12:30
p.m.

The Daily Campus, Page 11

Sports

In this Feb. 18, 2012, file photo, Connecticut assistant coach Kevin Ollie watches play during the first half of an NCAA
college basketball game against Marquette in Hartford, Conn.

» NCAA BASKETBALL

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Kevin Ollie can
win as many games, even as many national
championships, as his predecessor and former coach did at Connecticut. But he can’t
transform the program. Jim Calhoun did that
already.
During his 26 seasons in Storrs, Calhoun
turned a regional New England program into
a powerhouse, becoming one of just five
coaches to win three national titles or more.
Add to that seven Big East tournament crowns
and 10 regular-season championships. No
wonder the 10,000 seats were usually filled
at Gampel Pavilion, the arena Calhoun gets
credit for building.
All those accomplishments are history now.
What’s left are high expectations for a rookie
coach.
Ollie, who played for Calhoun from 199195, went on to a long NBA career and returned
two years ago as an assistant, took over
Thursday — a choice Calhoun fully supported.
“Simply put, he epitomizes what we want
our students to be about,” Calhoun said.
“When I started here we felt we could do
anything and I feel that way now, everything’s
in place. This is an exciting time as we go
forward.”
And a difficult one. He takes over a team
that is banned from the Big East and NCAA
tournaments because of poor academic performances.
With a one-year contract, Ollie won’t have
much time to show what he can do on the
bench and on the recruiting trail. And his
depleted roster isn’t likely to add to Calhoun’s
stellar numbers — 27 players selected in the
NBA draft, including 13 lottery picks.
“We’re going to attack this thing head on,”
Ollie said at a news conference at Gampel,
where he once thrilled UConn crowds with his
hustle and defense. “We have enough to do it.
Coach will be there right beside me as he has
always been. He’s been a second father to me
from the day I arrived here as a recruit and
believe me, that won’t change.”
Ollie’s contract will pay him a prorated
$384,615 and ends on April 4, the last day of
the 2012-13 basketball season.
Athletic director Warde Manuel said there’s
a reason it’s a single-year deal.
“I like to win and Kevin does, too. We’re
not here just to participate in games,” Manuel
said. “I’m looking to see how he is on the
sideline. How he handles decision-making,
substitutions, things that are normal in a
game. How does he handle losses with the
team and motivate them the next day to come
back and play?

» MEN’S SOCCER

Harvard cheating not just UConn heads to Harvard
to face the Crimson
a problem with sports
BOSTON (AP) -- Harvard
President Drew Faust said
Wednesday that athletes should
not be singled out for blame in
what is believed to be the largest
cheating scandal in the school’s
history. Nor are they being treated
any differently in the investigation, she added.
‘’It is not about one student
group,’’ Faust said in a telephone
interview with The Associated
Press. ‘’It’s not confined to any
one student group.’’
In her first interview on the subject since the school revealed that
as many as 125 students in a single
class may have shared answers on
a final exam, Faust said the ‘’allegations go to the core of what is
most valuable to us.’’
Harvard announced last month
that it was investigating similarities
in the answers that more than 100
students submitted on an openbook, take-home final. Federal privacy laws prohibit the school from
identifying the students or even the
class, but published reports have
said the class is an upper-level government class called ‘’Introduction
to Congress,’’ and that several of
the students are athletes.
The
Harvard
College
Administrative Board, known

to students as the ‘’Ad Board,’’
is investigating. Jay Harris, the
school’s dean of undergraduate
education, has said the likely outcomes range from exoneration
or a simple admonishment to a
requirement that the student take
a year off.
‘’It will, I expect, exonerate
some number of these students,’’
Faust said. ‘’The process itself,
and our fidelity to this process which transcends this incident ...
that process is operating here, and
it’s consistent with how it is always
executed, and it is meant to affirm
a set of standards we uphold for all
our students.’’
The Harvard Crimson school
newspaper said at least one student
had been told to expect a decision
by November, at the latest. But that
timetable poses a special problem
for athletes, who would lose a year
of eligibility if they had enrolled
in school or started their season
before withdrawing.
Sports Illustrated reported on its
web site this week that basketball co-captain Kyle Casey had
decided to withdraw rather than
endanger his eligibility; the Boston
Herald reported that fellow captain
Brandyn Curry had also decided to
take a year off.

By Danny Maher
Staff Writer
The No. 4 UConn men’s soccer team travels north to play
Harvard today at 4 p.m. in its
second road game of the season.
Last time out the Huskies (4-01) squandered a second-half lead
against another Boston school,
Boston University, en route to a
1-1 draw. Senior Carlos Alvarez
scored for the Huskies.
UConn remained No.4 in
the NSCAA Coaches’ Poll,
but dropped three spots in the
Soccer America poll to No. 4
after the tie.
Senior Max Wasserman was
named to the Big East Honor
Roll after his game-winning
free-kick on Sept. 7 in overtime
over Washington.
Connecticut earned a muchneeded five-day rest after playing into overtime in three of its
previous four games.
The first and only road game
came against Michigan State on
Sept. 3. UConn won 1-0 on a
first half goal from sophomore
Allando Matheson. Harvard
beat the Spartans by the same
score at home four days later,

despite taking only eight shots.
In Harvard’s opening match
they battled UMass to a 1-1
draw. The Huskies defeated the
Minutemen 2-0 in an exhibition
match on Aug. 12.
UConn enters Friday’s match
with the Crimson (1-2-1) dominating opponents in shots (7245). They have taken 15 more
corner kicks than their opponents. Matheson leads the team
with five points and 10 shots
on goal.
Sophomore goalkeeper Andre
Blake has played every minute in net this season. He has
held opponents to 0.38 goals per
game average and has posted an
.875 save percentage.
The uncertainty for the
Crimson lies between the
goalposts. Harvard has not
found a consistent goalkeeper.
Freshmen Joe Festa and Evan
Mendez have been splitting
time in net.
This is the 28th meeting
between the two New England
schools, with Connecticut holding the all-time series lead 14-85, including four consecutive
wins.

Daniel.Maher@UConn.edu

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.11: UConn takes on Harvard. / P.10: UConn volleyball once again back in Storrs. / P.10: Women’s soccer takes on St. John’s.

Page 12

» WOMEN’S TENNIS

UConn to kick
off season...
once again

Friday, September 14, 2012

www.dailycampus.com

A REUNION WITH RANDY
Huskies face Terps,
former head coach

By Kyle Constable
Campus Correspondent
After being rained out only
four matches into the Fairfield
Doubles Festival, the women’s
tennis team is looking for another opportunity to kick off the
fall season at the Quinnipiac
Invitational this weekend.
Before inclement weather prematurely ended the
tournament, duos Jennifer
Learmonth and Lucy Nutting,
Abby McKeon and Maxie
Weinberg, Alex Bergman and
Marie Gargiulo and Natalie
Robson and Emilie Burgess
each notched wins against their
opponents. Sarah Griffin and
Julia Allen were mid-match
when the tournament was called
off. In spite of the cancellation,
these strong performances gave
Coach Glenn Marshall a good
impression about this weekend’s competition.
“It shows some of the work
we’ve been doing in doubles,
getting prepared in the skillset
required to win,” Marshall said.
“It was good to get out and not
just play ourselves anymore—to
get competition in.”
The Quinnipiac Invitational
will be held from Sept. 14 to
16 in Hamden. The tournament
will feature singles and doubles
play, the first tournament of
the season offering both forms
for the Huskies. The tournament’s schedule has doubles
play on Friday, singles play on
Saturday, and the final matches
on Sunday a setup in which
many of the Huskies feel like
they can succeed.
“[We’ll] try and get the competitive juices going, see them
in match play situations, which
is totally different than practice situations,” Marshall said.
“[We’ll watch] how they react
with pressure, with scores
being up and down, and having
to battle—and all the intangibles that come with competition. So everyone’s really
excited to get started and get
on the court and play against
somebody else.”
Last
season,
Jennifer
Learmonth advanced to the
final round of competition in
the “A” flight of singles. Maxie
Weinberg advanced to the semifinals of the “B” flight, while
Lauren Wilmarth advanced to
the semifinals of the “C” flight.
Both Learmonth and Weinberg,
who have returned to play for
another season, hope to continue
their success from last year in
this weekend’s competition.
“I’m hoping to compete well
and hopefully play well all
weekend,” said Weinberg. “I
know what to expect because I
am no longer a freshman, so that
may help a bit.”
Holding practices six days a
week, the women’s team is hoping to take advantage of this
second opportunity to start off
the season strong. Marshall said
the team would closely watch
the matches with Seton Hall and
Providence, two of the Huskies’
Big East opponents. He stated
that he’s looking to watch the
new players on both of these
teams to gauge the competition
in the future.
The members of the UConn
team, express a lot of confidence in their ability to perform well. The Huskies hope
that this confidence will translate into a solid performance
at this weekend’s tournament.
“I think my team is in a
great place and we are coming
together well this year,” said
Weinberg. “I feel strongly about
the team as a whole going into
the tournament this weekend.”

Kyle.Constable@UConn.edu

By Tyler Morrissey
Associate Sports Editor

RACHEL WEISS/The Daily Campus

The UConn Huskies will head down to
College Park, Md., for their first road game of
the season to take on former head coach Randy
Edsall and the Maryland Terrapins.
Last weekend, UConn suffered a 10-7 loss
to the North Carolina State Wolfpack, in a
game where sophomore quarterback Chandler
Whitmer threw three interceptions and was
sacked three times. Head coach Paul Pasqualoni
felt that Whitmer played a good game against
N.C. State, despite his mistakes.
“At the end of the day, I thought Chandler
played pretty good,” said Pasqualoni. “He hung
in the pocket, took some whacks, got hit and
delivered the ball. I thought Chandler really
showed some toughness last week. I thought he
really hung in there, and other than a couple of
things, I thought he played well.”
So far this year, Whitmer has thrown a total of
five interceptions with no touchdowns in his first
two games as UConn’s starting quarterback.
In the backfield, sophomore running back Lyle
McCombs has two rushing touchdowns on the
season. Last weekend, his 43-yard reception was
one of the only highlights for the UConn offense,
as it set up the Huskies only touchdown of the
afternoon. Pasqualoni said he would like to see
his offensive line open up more running lanes for
his running back this weekend in Maryland.
On defense, the Huskies hope to continue
the dominance they have displayed in their
first two games. Sophomore linebacker Yawin
Smallwood leads the team in tackles with 21,
after a 14-tackle performance last week against
N.C. State. Senior defensive end Trevardo
Williams leads the Big East in sacks, with 3.5
on the season.

UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer drops back to pass during the Huskies’ 10-7 loss to the N.C. State Wolfpack on Saturday September 8. in a game
played at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. This weekend, the Huskies face Maryland and former UConn coach, Randy Edsall.

» LINEBACKER, page 10

» FIELD HOCKEY

Rutgers and Yale among weekend opponents

By Erica Brancato
Campus Correspondent

conference play last year and
our goal will be to repeat that
this year. It will be a chalThe UConn women’s field lenge, but it is always a good
hockey team will take on goal to have.”
Rutgers at home this Saturday
Rutgers has had a strong
and Yale at home this Sunday. defense in the past few games.
Rutgers has began the sea- The Scarlet Knights had their
son with a 3-3 overall record, first shutout of the season,
while Yale has struggled with defeating Bryant 3-0. Senior
a 1-2 record thus far.
Ashley Yanek and
This Saturday will be
goalkeeper Sarah
UConn’s first conferStuby, with eight
ence game of the season.
saves last game,
“Conference games
have
led
the
always are more
defense with poise
intense,”
UConn’s
and confidence.
head coach Nancy
“Both
UConn
Stevens said. “Only
and Rutgers beat a
the top four teams
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in the conference
team, so I expect
advance to the Big
Saturday’s game to
East Championships, so each be close,” Stevens said.
conference game takes on
“Close games always bring
special importance.”
out the best in both teams and
She used the phrase ‘season help both teams to get better.”
within a season’ to describe
Although Yale’s season has
conference play. Last year started off a bit shaky, they
the Huskies won all six of are not a team to be taken
their conference games, nota- lightly. With two losses under
bly Rutgers, beating them 5-0. their belt, the Bulldogs will be
“Starting out 1-0 in the con- eager to prove their strength.
ference sure beats starting out Last season, UConn beat Yale
0-1,” Stevens says. “We were by a low score of 1-0.
fortunate to go undefeated in
This past week, both Marie

» FIELD
HOCKEY

Elena Bolles and Sarah
Mansfield received awards
to recognize their excellence
in the previous weekend’s
games. Bolles was named the
Big East offensive player of
the week for the second week
in a row. On top of that,
Mansfield was named the Big
East defensive player of the
week for her performance in
goal.
“Any time one of our players receives an honor, it
brings recognition to our program and every player on our
team,” Stevens says. “Sarah
has four senior defenders
playing in front of her, so they
deserve a lot of credit as well.
Marie Elena scored on assists
by Louisa Boddy and Chloe
Hunnable. Everyone made a
contribution to the successful
weekend.”
Despite having beaten both
teams last year, the Huskies
feel the pressure to win in
their first conference game.
The Huskies have their hands
full this weekend.

Erica.Brancato@UConn.edu

TROY CALDERIA/The Daily Campus

UConn’s Marie Elena Bolles runs up the field during a field hockey game against Penn State.

» MEN’S TENNIS

Huskies head to Providence for Brown Invite
By Bea Angueira
Campus Correspondent

RACHEL WEISS/The Daily Campus

This weekend, the Huskies travel to Providence, R.I. to compete in the Brown Invitational.

The Huskies will travel to
Providence, R.I this weekend
to participate in the Brown
Invitational, which will be
played throughout the whole
weekend.
The team is looking forward to continuing the offseason after a successful
invitational last weekend
in Fairfield.
The UConn

men’s tennis team consists
of eleven players, including
four incoming freshmen, who
made a strong appearance in
Fairfield.
Last year, the men competed in the Brown Invitational,
obtaining some wins and
losses. However, it is an
important tournament that
will begin the season.
Team captain Ryan Carr
has high expectations for this
season. The combination of
new and returning players

should make for a suceesful
season.
“I realize being captain is a
huge responsibility but I am
really looking forward to the
challenge,” Carr said. “I have
a hard-working and talented
team behind me, and we are
looking forward to the competition ahead.”